NEW DELHI: Conditional access system, like Banquo’s ghost, just refuses to go away. Just when everybody, including the government, thought it has been given a quiet...
MUMBAI: It’s party time for CNBC-TV18. While last month the channel was celebrating accolades, having walked away with the Best Business Programme of the year award...
Front page readership is very high while sports and edit sections get less readers. These are just a few of the findings that the survey SPARR...
MUMBAI: December 10 could well be a day of great significance to many cricket fans in Mumbai and other cities who subscribe to Hinduja Group MSO...
MUMBAI: Karan Thapar, presenter of BBC World’s popular weekly chat show Face to Face, has been named ‘Best Current Affairs Presenter’ at the Asian Television Awards...
MUMBAI: Japanese broadcaster Wowow Inc’s president Toshio Hirose yesterday announced a major multi-year feature film output license agreement with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI). With the...
MUMBAI: Some top industry talent and executives have been roped in to participate at the National Association of Television Program Executives’ (Natpe) conference and exhibition from...
MUMBAI: This is a contest that revolves around mega movie star and Oscar winner Catherine Zeta Jones and a girl’s best friend – diamonds. Diamond Trading...
MUMBAI: Star World will launch Style, a weekly lifestyle show, from this weekend (7 December) at 9 pm. Starting aptly in the Christmas month, the show’s...
MUMBAI:How long does an ad man have to say whatever he wants? Thirty seconds, at the most 60 seconds. Ex-advertising man and currently B4U chief marketing...
MUMBAI: Sony Digital Home Entertainment, a division of Sony Music India, has now become the marketing and distribution partner of Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Sony...
MUMBAI: Eutelsat has announced that the key sessions of the first World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF) will be broadcast live and free-to-air through its Hot Bird...
MUMBAI: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) announced its Hall of Frames Awards at its ‘Frames 2004 Knowledge Series’ seminar at Mumbai...
NEW DELHI: If the cable operators of Delhi have their way, then conditional access system (CAS) would be rolled out by them tomorrow. So upbeat are...
MUMBAI: Panamsat has announced that Anatel the government agency that regulates all telecommunications services in Brazil, has authorised its Brazilian subsidiary, PanAmSat do Brasil to provide...
MUMBAI: In a bid to expand children’s listenership, Radio City 91 FM is now looking for young RJs to anchor some new programmes for children. On...
MUMBAI: Hong Kong based communications provider PCCW and Star have announced that Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong will be available to Now Broadband TV customers...
MUMBAI: The Star network is all set to start 2004 with a bang. Star Movies, Star Plus and Star Gold will showcase a slew of top...
MUMBAI: Turner India managing director Anshuman Misra is all set to take on additional responsibilities to manage Turner’s distribution and content sales in South East Asia....
MUMBAI: Film director Michael Apted of Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World Is Not Enough fame will direct the first three episodes of the new drama...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced an extra half million pound investment in regional independent television productions. The addtitional investment will be spent on a range of new...
MUMBAI: The Hindi version of the popular Hollywood blockbuster Anaconda which was telecast on Star Gold, created sensation by registering a whopping TVR of 3.3 with...
MUMBAI: BBC’s South Asia Bureau Chief Paul Danahar has been given one of Britain’s most prestigious awards, the MBE, for services to journalism. The award honours...
Tony and Deeya Singh have been pulled in from the wilderness (their last well known work was Just Mohabbat and Banegi Apni Baat) by Sony Entertainment...
MUMBAI: The Hallmark Movie Channel, which is Hallmark’s first digital service, is set to debut in January 2004. Crown Media Holdings Inc., which operates the Hallmark...
NEW DELHI: The dead on its feet rollout of conditional access system (CAS) has just had a dose of oxygen pumped into it. In a ruling...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: This may just give a shot in the arm of a certain section of the cable industry lobbying hard for the implementation...
NEW DELHI: It is not only the likes of Star News, CNBC-TV18 and Zee News that have to restructure their shareholding pattern to comply with the...
MUMBAI: The New Bombay Punjab Association, Vashi, the Punjabi Cultural and Welfare Association, CBD Belapur and Music Today organised a live concert by Punjabi popstar Hans...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The re-launched DD News is not only proving the sceptics wrong, but has managed to keep the heat on on its competitors....
MUMBAI: It’s time for celebrations at Star India. The Star network has walked away with nine awards at the Promax & BDA (Broadcast Designers’ Association) Asia...
MUMBAI: The Sridevi starrer Humaari Bahu Malini Iyer (HBMI) is set to debut on Sahara Manoranjan on 5 January 2004. Sahara, which urgently needs a hit...
MUMBAI: A crowd of about 2,000 people that had gathered outside the National Centre of Performing Arts at Nariman Point, Mumbai for the ceremonial flag-off the...
NEW DELHI: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), heading a 17-party coalition Federal government in India, had a whopping 3:1 sweep in the four states that...
NEW DELHI: Pune-based 2D animation studio Digikore Studios Limited is on the lookout for acquiring an equity stake in 2D animated television series. The studio, which...
Jack of all trades and a master too… that's what sums up actor, director and scriptwriter Rajesh Joshi. Recognised mostly for his short role as Chirag's...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: The end-of year big ticket cricket event, India’s tour of Australia, kicks off on ESPN Star Sports from tomorrow. However, for a...
MUMBAI: The global entertainment industry generates $1.2 trillion revenue every year. However, the Indian industry – which contributes in a big way to the global market...
MUMBAI: When it comes to awards Max appears to be the channel to beat. At the Promax & BDA Asia Awards 2003 in Singapore last evening,...
MUMBAI: Channel [V] has been awarded the Gold Promax in the ‘Best interactive promo category’ for its promo with ‘Rai University’ and a Silver Promax in...
NEW DELHI: The issue of censorship on television cropped up in a different way today when members of a parliamentary panel expressed their concern at the...
MUMBAI: The US-based Malayalee entrepreneur and chairman of US Software and Toonz Animation at Technopark, G.A.Menon died of a heart attack yesterday. The incident happened on...
NEW DELHI: The Aroon Purie-controlled TV Today Network Ltd., which manages the affairs of Hindi news channel Aaj Tak and its English sibling, Headlines Today, is...
MUMBAI: Channel [V], China Central Television (CCTV) and Shanghai Media Group have announced that they will jointly present The 10th Channel [V] Chinese Music Awards. The...
NEW DELHI: BBC’s Washington correspondent Nick Bryant who will be the organisations’ new South Asia correspondent arrived in the Capital. Bryant has been at the heart...
MUMBAI: The Asia Media Festival (AMF) 2003 is currently taking place in Singapore. The annual media industry fiesta hosted by the Media Development Authority (MDA) and...
MUMBAI: MTV has announced a variety of local acts for its awards function The MTV Immies. Actor Salman Khan, dancer Ishaa Koppikar, model Yana Gupta, Amrita...
MUMBAI: If last year, Star India had linked a 25 per cent drop in subscription rates per subscriber (from Rs 40 to Rs 30) to a...
MUMBAI: Entertainment One, Manmohan Shetty’s film production house, has issued a notice yesterday stating that all is well between them and their associates Sahara India Mass...
MUMBAI: The top line findings of a new research study – Sparr (Sections, Pullouts and Attitudinal Readership Research) – conducted by Media Research Users Council (MRUC)...